From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2020: Construction Drawings

Industry standard layers - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2020: Construction Drawings

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Industry standard layers

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- [Instructor] I want to touch real briefly on layer-naming standards. So depending on the discipline that you're working in or the locality that you're working in, there is more than likely already a national standard for naming your layers. So in this case, I have up the NCS, the United States National CAD Standard, which goes into the specific way that you should be naming your individual layers. They don't really get into colors or any other properties, per se, but they do focus on the naming conventions. And again, this is so that you can work with any other firm and exchange drawings and all of your layered names are going to line up and be legible and understandable. Now we have different standards. Over here in this case for the British standards, this is one created specifically by the BSI or the British Standards Institute. They have their own organization and naming of layers for CAD. So my point is that every firm that you work for, every organization that you're going to work for in every locality that you're going to work in more than likely has their own standards. You can choose how much of those you need to adopt depending on how must interactivity you're going to have with the community and other contractors and so forth. But more than likely, depending on where you're working or how you're working, there are already going to be standard CAD layer names that you should at least sort of emulate if not fully take on and incorporate into your drawings so that you can avoid some issues later on in your working with AutoCAD.

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